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Author blakeross
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Date 2007-03-19.03:32:33
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object.__init__ currently allows any amount of args and keywords even though they're ignored. This is inconsistent with other built-ins, like list, that are stricter about what they'll accept. It's also inconsistent with object.__new__, which does throw if any are provided (if the default __init__ is to be used).

To reproduce:

object.__init__(object(), foo, bar=3)

This is a slight irritation when using cooperative super calling. I'd like each class' __init__ to cherry-pick keyword params it accepts and pass the remaining ones up the chain, but right now I can't rely on object.__init__ to throw if there are remaining keywords by that point.
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